Joseph Banks - Endeavour Journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0156
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Rio de Janeiro
calculated more to please the smell than the taste the other sort are small & black & resemble much the taste of our English bilberries Coco nutts are so well known in England that I need only say I have tasted as good there as any I met with here Palm nutts of two sorts one long & shapd like dates the other round both these are rosted before their kernels are Eatable & Even then they are not so good a Coco nuts Palm berries appear much like Black grapes they are the fruit of Bactris minor but for Eating have scarce any pulp covering a very large stone & what there is has nothing but a light acid to recommend it here are also the fruits of several species of prickle pears which are very insipid. Of Europaean Fruits I saw apples but very mealy & insipid & one peach which was also a very bad one